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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote La Tentation de Stain Antione?
(a) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.
(b) Simon Ockley.
(c) Anquetil-Duperron.
(d) Gustave Flaubert.

2. Who wrote and published Islam and Capitalism in 1966?
(a) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) Eduard Sachau.
(d) Maxime Rodinson.

3. What term is used to identify the Western world in contrast to the Orient?
(a) The Opulent.
(b) The Imperialistic.
(c) The Occident.
(d) The Aryan.

4. Who is most remembered for developing the theory of the Aryan master race?
(a) Joseph Arthur de Gobineau.
(b) Anquetil-Duperron.
(c) Simon Ockley.
(d) Barthelemy d'Herbelot.

5. What term refers to Islamic mysticism or the inward dimension of Islam?
(a) Robism.
(b) Hinduism.
(c) Sufism.
(d) Ankism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many books are estimated to have been written dealing with the Near Orient between 1800 and 1950?

2. Who stated in his theses about propaganda, "The propagandist outlook in fact combines respect for individuality with indifference to formal democracy" (292)?

3. Who wrote the poem "Giaour"?

4. Who is the author of Chapters on the Principles of International Law?

5. What term used in the book refers to the exercise of absolute power, particularly in a cruel and oppressive way?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the "unsettling influences" that every Western traveler or resident of the Orient had to protect himself from, according to the author in Chapter 2?

2. How did Nietzsche describe the truth of language, as cited in Chapter 3?

3. Who wrote The Struggle for Existence in Human Society? When was it written and what was detailed in the book?

4. The author states that the primitiveness of Arab society exists simultaneously on at least two levels. What are these levels?

5. Who was Hafiz and how are his works regarded in Orientalism?

6. In what way does Edward Said compare Orientalism to a political doctrine in Chapter 3?

7. What were the Crusades? When did they occur?

8. What did R. N. Cust say about the Semitic-Islamic subfield of Orientalism at the Orientalist congress in Paris between 1873 and 1897?

9. Who was T. E. Lawrence and what were his contributions to Orientalism?

10. How did Wilhelm Dilthey's ideas influence Orientalism?

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